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originally posted by: Groot
How many times have you been told by a friend about another friend.
Gossip.
Anyone on social media face it daily. Everyday we face it in real life personally. I see it all the the time with my co-workers. Even with my spouse.
So , how do you deal with it?
Use Socrates test of three.
1. Is it truthful.
2. Is it good.
3. Is it useful.
Apply this to your life in the real world and on the internet.
I usually stop when the truthful answer is answered with a " I don't know" , but I want to know more.
Is it good? I wold like for it to be good, but most of the times, I want to know the bad. It's interesting to know the bad.
Is it useful to me? Depends if it is affecting me personally or a loved one.
Do you apply these three tests in your daily interactions ?
Just curious.
originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
a reply to: Groot
You know, this is actually a hard one, and begs a very interesting and important question; why do we love gossip so much? Why is a show like TMZ so damned successful? I'll try to address this by using only 'I' statements, though I suspect that the things that occur to me are probably pretty similar.
I don't know what it is about good, juicy gossip, but it is simply intriguing. It's a little bit of drama introduced into one's day that excites and tickles with curiosity. It is also unbelievably dangerous and harmful. There are children literally killing themselves over gossip thanks to the promulgation afforded it through the advent and ubiquitous nature of social media. I have experienced it in my family toward me, and it's awful! Most importantly, however, is that I believe it's rarely accurate. It's very similar to the telephone game and seems to take on a life of its own, such that by the time it travels very far its rife with distortion and inaccuracies.
Bottom line, in my humble opinion, it's immoral and should be avoided. That is, of course, not always easy, but neither is doing the right thing sometimes...
My opinion is that we take joy in knowing of others misfortunes. And that is not a good either it be true or not,it forfills our fantasasies of others failing while we succede.It is wrong, and we should take note and not take that road.
originally posted by: CanadianMason
a reply to: TheElectricPriest
Gossip = bonding; isolating the competition?
originally posted by: CanadianMason
a reply to: TheElectricPriest
I think the phenomenon of gossip is fostered by Corporation Inc. It works to its advantage. It drives competitiveness up among the 'worker bees'; makes them work harder to become part of the 'in-group' where the 'Queen Bee' may notice them and might confer benefits upon them, Her pawns.
*Just thinking out loud*
originally posted by: TheElectricPriest
a reply to: Groot
You know, this is actually a hard one, and begs a very interesting and important question; why do we love gossip so much? Why is a show like TMZ so damned successful? I'll try to address this by using only 'I' statements, though I suspect that the things that occur to me are probably pretty similar.
I don't know what it is about good, juicy gossip, but it is simply intriguing. It's a little bit of drama introduced into one's day that excites and tickles with curiosity. It is also unbelievably dangerous and harmful. There are children literally killing themselves over gossip thanks to the promulgation afforded it through the advent and ubiquitous nature of social media. I have experienced it in my family toward me, and it's awful! Most importantly, however, is that I believe it's rarely accurate. It's very similar to the telephone game and seems to take on a life of its own, such that by the time it travels very far its rife with distortion and inaccuracies.
Bottom line, in my humble opinion, it's immoral and should be avoided. That is, of course, not always easy, but neither is doing the right thing sometimes...
...large fleshy lips like an ass.
Before the philosopher Socrates was tried for moral corruption and impiety, the citizens of Athens knew him as an intellectual and moral gadfly of their society. In the comic play, The Clouds (423 BC), Aristophanes represents Socrates as a sophistic philosopher who teaches the young man Pheidippides how to formulate arguments that justify striking and beating his father. Despite Socrates denying he had any relation with the Sophists, the playwright indicates that Athenians associated the philosophic teachings of Socrates with Sophism. As philosophers, the Sophists were men of ambiguous reputation, “they were a set of charlatans that appeared in Greece in the fifth century BC, and earned ample livelihood by imposing on public credulity: professing to teach virtue, they really taught the art of fallacious discourse, and meanwhile propagated immoral practical doctrines.”[2]
originally posted by: InTheLight
a reply to: CanadianMason
Consider the source of those that describe him as ugly...Was it he who was ugly, or was what he had to teach considered offensive and ugly (causing fear by challenging the programming of the time)?
Before the philosopher Socrates was tried for moral corruption and impiety, the citizens of Athens knew him as an intellectual and moral gadfly of their society. In the comic play, The Clouds (423 BC), Aristophanes represents Socrates as a sophistic philosopher who teaches the young man Pheidippides how to formulate arguments that justify striking and beating his father. Despite Socrates denying he had any relation with the Sophists, the playwright indicates that Athenians associated the philosophic teachings of Socrates with Sophism. As philosophers, the Sophists were men of ambiguous reputation, “they were a set of charlatans that appeared in Greece in the fifth century BC, and earned ample livelihood by imposing on public credulity: professing to teach virtue, they really taught the art of fallacious discourse, and meanwhile propagated immoral practical doctrines.”[2]
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